Parenting on the Go

Essential parenting advice from one of today’s leading psychologists, at your fingertipsWhat is the most treasured resource for families with young children? Time. Between keeping house, shopping, doing chores, and getting everyone to work and school,let alone fitting in family meals, fun activities, and much-needed downtime,being a parent can require major feats of scheduling. While parents don’t always have hours to pore over parenting books, they could use short, to-the-point advice on the challenges they confront every day.Now, for today’s busy families, child-development expert and bestselling author David Elkind offers Parenting on the Go : an authoritative, accessible guide for parents of infants and young children. Elkind has long been praised for his timely, resonant responses to key child-rearing issues. Here, with characteristic insight and comforting sensibility, he offers practical answers to more than 100 common parenting questions, on topics from A to Z, including: Attention Deficit Disorders Back-to-School Blues Child-Proofing the Computer Empathy in Children Homework Manners and Morals Only Children Sibling Rivalry Time-Outsand much more. Praise for David Elkind” The Power of Play should be considered one of the primers for good parenting.”, Chicago Parent “[O]ffers excellent perspectives on children, parents, and culture . . . this powerful book is essential reading.”, Library Journal on The Hurried Child “Elkind . . . is a child-study specialist of eminent common sense . . . whom parents would do well to heed.”, Publishers Weekly